Tag Archives: Adventure

The Great Ape Kong pervades our cultural consciousness, looming over a collective fantasy urbanscape from a forever-’30s Empire State Building, reaching into our dreams through a window we know better than to leave open, a ferocious yet tragic fellow primate doomed by presumptuous and misplaced love. Can Peter Jackson’s 21st …

Jackson's Kong succeeds where Titanic failed by creating believable characters and an amazing story that will tug at your heartstrings.

Let's hope as the series progresses that this standard is maintained; Harry deserves it.

In November of 1833, the state of Missouri turned a blind eye as hundreds of its peaceful inhabitants were hunted down.

Fans of the Harry Potter series can look forward to the second well-directed movie in the series

The Star Wars series is a celluloid sestina that transcends generations in its power to move and entertain.

We could call this summer Men In Black 3 or the Birth of Mask ...

Having long since overcome the pretty boy canard, Johnny Depp seems to have now moved into “actor’s actor” territory: he was just nominated for the best actor Oscar for the second year in a row, this time for his role as J.M. Barrie, creator of Peter Pan, in Finding Neverland, …

Though I love Harry I am somewhat leery of J.K. Rowling (there’s something unseemly about her tarting up on the way to becoming a billionaire) and certainly don’t have the time or interest in solving some damn riddles on her website in order to get the fresh poop on the …

Disney’s National Treasure opens tomorrow. Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage stars as Benjamin Franklin Gates, an archaeologist and treasure-hunter who discovers that a map to a priceless bounty lies on the back of the Declaration of Independence. To protect the country’s most sacred document and uncover the extraordinary treasure to …